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Creativity Matters with Crayola

What a true statement! Creativity does matter! I try to be creative, I want to be creative. Sometimes my creativity is quickly tossed in the fireplace, where it will never be seen by anyone, and sometimes with the right inspiration and instructions from others it will hang above my kitchen table forever.  Instilling our kids […]

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Get Your Craft On!

I had a bit of a downer week (just look back through some posts and you’ll see the mess).  I feel much more relaxed now, and have begun some exciting and fun stuff! See this basket? Nice right? We got this basket for our wedding, and we loved it. The problem was we rarely went […]

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Sentimental Sunday – Books

Today I’m feeling quite sentimental about books.  I can’t remember a time of my life that books weren’t a part of it.  Some of my very early childhood favorites were Cindy Czekeres Counting Book 1 to 10 (which I still own!), and Earrings. From there it turned into my mom reading us chapter books like Little House […]

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Upcycled Card Table

Due to my design impasse yesterday, I found another outlet for creativity.  My card table.  It was ugly, but I wanted to be able to use it wthout having to throw on a table cloth.  The mind sparked, and I grabbed the rolls of contact paper my sister in law gave me last summer (I […]

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DIY Love Blocks
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Love Blocks

These love blocks add a nice touch to the home for Valentines. Simple to make, and a great reminder for the family to do all things with Love! This was going to be part of my Valentines Decorations, but circumstances didn’t allow me to get to it until after. My mom’s ward was making these […]

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